You know why I think this shit happened? Look, I am no big fan of the prequels, but they do not "ruin Star Wars" for me because I did not have a Star Wars before the prequels. But I think the ST is being run by the "anti-Prequels" era of fanboy. Who loved Vader more than the protagonists and hated him seeing him as an idealistic kid because it "ruined" him. Who see Padme as half of a lame romance and CGI Yoda as the most offensive thing ever.
These kinds of guys also tend to be the ones that love the idea of a “darker/grittier” Luke because they kind of like real Luke but only when he’s angry, otherwise he’s kinda lame. That’s why RO put in cool but ultimately unneeded scenes with Vader in RO, because they needed to “fix” him. That’s why Yoda talked to Luke and not Anakin. That’s why Padme hasn’t even been mentioned. They just want to portray that era as “wrong,” and don’t realize that people have accepted it as part of the universe
Oh, don’t even get me started on that stupid puppet, EVERYTHING about that scene was ridiculous and insulting, and when Yoda asked Luke if he actually read the (what, 6?) Jedi books and he grimaced I wanted to scream. Luke Skywalker’s mission was to restore the Jedi and he loved being a Jedi, why wouldn’t he read books about the Jedi, why is everything in this movie set to insult people who want to think about it for more than 5 seconds, I hate Rian Johnson so much. Also #notmyLuke
I agree with you about the PT, but I also think that they simply wanted to get rid of the Skywalker baggage so they could make more generic movies in the SW universe for wider audiences (aka people who go to the cinema to see explosions and laser swords, not a compelling generation story). That’s what they are interested in - the window dressing, not the mythos. TLJ is just one drastic measure how to get there.














